Head of a Woman

Head of an Old Greek Woman is a painting completed in 1824 by the French Romantic artist Eugène Delacroix. It is a study for his large oil painting The Massacre at Chios ("Scène des massacres de Scio"); a depiction of the Chios massacre which occurred in 1821 during the Greek War of Independence. The final work was completed for that year's Paris Salon. The final work was heavily influenced by both Spanish influenced and the French artist Théodore Géricault, and shows the woman in full-length seated to the right next to a gruesomely depicted female corspe.